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L. 0. PARKER.

GLOTHES WRINGER.

No. 398,793. Patented Feb'. 26, 1889.

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Nv PETERS. Plumb-Lithographer, Washington. D, c.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEIVIS Cl PARKER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERTSIMPSON, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,793, dated.February 26, 1889.

Application filed June 9, 1888.

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEwIs C. PARKER, a eitizen of the United States,residing at Cincini nati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clothes-\Vringers,of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements 5 in that class ofelothes-wringers known as the U -spring.

The object of my invention is to provide devices for separating therolls when not in use, and thereby prevent the permanent flattening oftheir contiguous surfaces incident to their being loi'lgpressed togetherin one position.

My invention consists of the devices illusl trated in the accompanyindrawings, as hereina'fter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is an end elevation of so much of aclotheswringer as will serve to illustrate my invention, and in whichthe apron is turned down for use; Fig. i, a sii'nilar elevation with theapron raised to separate the rolls; and Fig. 3, a plan of one end of theapron, pivot,

and cam.

The rolls A A are mounted on axles (1 u,

respectively, for which the curved ends I.) h of the U-spring 1-constitute bearings, the

tension of the spring serving to press them I together. These springsare united with simi lar spi as on the opposite ends of the rolls by abar, to which the clamps by which the wringer is attached to the tub(parts of which, I), are shown) are bolted. Interposed at each end ofthe rolls, between them. and i the springs, are cheek-pieces E, having acirenlarhole for the axle of the upper roll, and

t a slot for the axle of the lower roll, to permitthe rolls to separatevertically.

From the edge of each cheek-piece E to ward the bow of the springs Bprojects a lug, c, curved downward at its outer end, its lower edgebeing rounded inward to form abearing for the pivots f of the apron 15.

The apron F is of the usual form used in wringers of this class, andconsists of a narrow boa-rd interposed between the springs b v andsustained by pivots f, which pass under the lugs c and rest on the lowerarm of the spring when the apron down, as shown in Fig. 1. At the outerend otf each pivot f is a small cam, G, with its greatest eccentricityopposite and in the line of the apron. Hence by swinging thcapron up, asshown in Fig. 2, these cams encounter the lower arms of the sprin l3,and by means of the cheek-pieces E force them apart, thereby separatingthe rolls.

I claim In a wring-er of the class speeiticd, the combination, withcheek-pieces, each having a hole for the axle of one roll and a slot forthe axle of the other, and a pivot-bearing adjacent to one arm of thespring, of an apron having end pivots resting in said bearings, eachpivot bearing a cam arranged to engage one arm of the spring when theapron is swung upward for the purpose of separating the rolls,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set m v hand.

LEWIS PARKER.

, In presence of t P. HUMPHREY, i F. H. STUART.

